Celebrating Shavuot for a Week: A Journey of Revelation and Relationship
The giving of Torah happened at one specific time, but the receiving of Torah happens all the time, in every generation.
—Rebbe Yitzchak Meir Alter (1799–1866)
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Why Is This Night Different?: A Conversion Journey
Our fortieth anniversary celebrated a marriage that had survived 429 tubes of toothpaste squeezed from the wrong end, three children and three sets of braces, five dogs and four homes, 2,583 argum
Visiting the Graves of Other People's Fathers
I cannot visit my father’s grave because he doesn't have one.
Clothes, Paper, Pictures: Compassionate Decluttering for Adult Children of Shoah Survivors
Adult children of
Counting COVID: From Omer to Omer!
The journey from Mitzrayaim to Merkhav
I Don't Want to Sing Another Happy Song
Some weeks ago, one of my b’nei mitzvah students and I were reading the English for her
Three Practices of Gratitude
Cultivating gratitude for the good which is not yet
And Now for the Good News
I’m on a mission to recalibrate myself to welcome hope and possibility, with Jewish resilience and gratitude to guide me.
Meryl’s Menorah Method: Writing by Candlelight
On the fourth day of
Hanukkah Mishloakh Manot: A New Ritual During Covid
We can’t celebrate together in person, but we can pass along that spirit in a gesture of connection
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